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It's the middle of the night, your eyes open and that's above you. what do you even say first
Gravity might not be the final word anymore. a propulsion system that supposedly defies conventional physics is being described by an engineer, and if it works, spaceflight gets rewritten entirely
Physicists are saying there's a mirror universe running on reverse time. wild
A ride to orbit is the scarcest thing in space, and the company that controls most of it also has its own AI satellites waiting to go up. That is the squeeze nobody priced in. Three Space Force missions came up andโฆ
Unknown physics is apparently what James Webb Space Telescope keeps turning up, and that's a real problem for how we understand the universe. Findings from the scope confirm something is off with the current picture, perโฆ
The part that should worry you is the second half: researchers say space junk coming down will only get more common, and a direct hit could kill somebody. That's the context for a chunk of a Chinese rocket, about 11 feetโฆ
If you could send a message to an Alien civilization, what would you say?
A rocket leaving Earth, captured like this
Mars has its own night sky and we get to see it
Mars night sky view
Scientists are calling it the first observational evidence for string theory
NASA just dropped a new shot of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, which is the most powerful telescope ever built
Carl Sagan points out that the nitrogen in our DNA, calcium in our teeth, iron in our blood, and carbon in our apple pies all formed inside collapsing stars. The conclusion is simple: we are made of starstuff. #CarlSagan
๐จElon Musk says SpaceX will attempt to catch both Starship and its Super Heavy booster during the next test flight.
Gravity can turn a foreground galaxy into a cosmic lens, bending a background galaxy's light so it wraps into a ring. That is gravitational lensing, and the result is an Einstein ring, a rare alignment where theโฆ
Einstein ring gravitational lensing explained
